Discovery BoxActs 5:3 
Context5:3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled 1 your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back for yourself part of the proceeds from the sale of 2 the land?
Acts 26:14
Context26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 3 ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself 4 by kicking against the goads.’ 5
1 sn This is a good example of the Greek verb fill (πληρόω, plhrow) meaning “to exercise control over someone’s thought and action” (cf. Eph 5:18).
2 tn The words “from the sale of” are not in the Greek text, but are supplied to clarify the meaning, since the phrase “proceeds from the land” could possibly be understood as crops rather than money from the sale.
3 tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.
4 tn Grk “It is hard for you.”
5 tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.
sn Sayings which contain the imagery used here (kicking against the goads) were also found in Greek writings; see Pindar, Pythians 2.94-96; Euripides, Bacchae 795.
